LAWSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

LAWSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a small elementary-level community in LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, one of the schools within PULASKI COUNTY SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 220 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Arkansas's public schools average about 418 students each, so LAWSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 47% smaller than that benchmark.

LAWSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 26 schools operated by PULASKI COUNTY SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that works with 12,586 students overall.

Demographically, LAWSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 43% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest reads as 30% Black, 25% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 63% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, LAWSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 35.6%; actual is 21.1%, a gap of -14.5 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Pulaski County indicate the typical household earns roughly $62,873 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. LAWSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 133 public schools in Pulaski County (combined enrollment of about 64,124 students).

The closest other public school is BAKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 3.9 miles away. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, LAWSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 39.6%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LAWSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has declined 24%, going from 290 students in 2018 to 220 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 51% to 43% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.

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